Sincere Ignorance

Whatever the tradition, there always comes the moment when the pilgrim must focus on these psychic processes and make contact….

Which means taking his distances.

It is necessary to distance oneself in order to come into contact – to realize – the content, the illusory power of these processes.

Some Eastern traditions tend to make it the gateway to the Practice, aware that it is not possible to perceive things as they are without having first been put in a situation of apprehension of what is in them and distorts vision.

For monotheistic traditions, it is no different. The believer has a foretaste of reality, which in addition to filling him with joy, contributes to the overall pedagogy of his practice.

As he progresses along the axis of internalization of the elements of his tradition (in the sense of both integration and universalization), he comes to consider the moment to remove the perceptual filters inherent to his functioning, either due to his personal history or exogenously established (via education, exoteric traditions, cultural habits, compensatory personal mechanisms, etc.)

The believer’s courage is then under the spotlight when he sees what he believed to be the beings populating his landscape, with the filter on which they were stuck, suddenly disappear.

The one who practices silent sitting, immediately confronted with this work of observation of awareness, risks taking such a realization for granted and letting the process accumulate on the lens of his inner telescope.

Having earned the credit of a meditator and therefore deceiving himself, thinking that he has acquired his discernment medals, he moves completely away from the heart of truth, sitting on an artificial credit or worse, sitting on the credit of another, more ancient in his tradition and whose clothes he hastily put on.

Sometimes in sincere ignorance.

Franck – September 2023
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